Don't forget to roll your clock back!

@Cerridwyn
In my case stove and coffeepot

@chienfou Strangely I never set the clock on the coffee pot because I don’t use it. I’m not going to grind the night before and leave it sit out all night to brew coffee so I don’t have a need to use it as a timer and it’s not where I’m ever going to look at it for something. I actually probably use the one on the microwave the most because I’ll look up when I put something in the oven it’s more convenient than the actual one on the stove

@Cerridwyn @chienfou There are digital clocks on both my wall oven and microwave, about 3 feet apart. It offends my OCD nature when they are out of sync, but fortunately I can disable the clock display on the microwave to avoid the trauma.

@Cerridwyn @chienfou @macromeh i just set the stove, microwave, and toaster oven…
I could sync any two by hitting the set buttons simultaneously.

Three is a crap shoot. I have to wait another minute and try to get close with the third one. Stove and microwave are most important as one is above the other.

I can let it go…
I can let it go…

@Cerridwyn @chienfou @macromeh Dang it!

@Cerridwyn @macromeh @ybmuG
Haven’t set the coffee up to make on its own in a long time. My schedule working afternoons meant I would get up at random times in the morning. For a while,when my wife was teaching,we would set coffee to start brewing before she woke up. That ship has sailed since she’s only tutoring ACT prep now and her day starts at random times. Plus recently she quit drinking coffee and switched to green tea.

@Cerridwyn @chienfou @macromeh @ybmuG i think you should wrangle the wife in to hit one button. On the count of three everyine hits the button

@chienfou @macromeh @ybmuG is that kind of out of I can’t think of the word right now I’m having a senior moment but where the perspective isn’t exactly what it really looks like. Because otherwise how the hell could you use the stove

@Cerridwyn @chienfou @macromeh @tinamarie1974 I think she would say that I push her buttons, so perhaps she might.

@Cerridwyn @chienfou @macromeh yes, the phone is a little wide angle, so it’s not as bad as it looks. There’s also a cutting board across the burners so it’s even more compressed.

BUT - it is still WAY too short. It’s the original kitchen from 1968 so it would have had a vent fan, not a microwave.

Previous tennants installed the microwave and I’m not sure they thought too hard about it. We have an 8qt stock pot with a domed lid that won’t fit under if we use the lid. Our 16qt won’t even fit the front burner.

@Cerridwyn @chienfou @macromeh @ybmuG Eek sounds like a serious amateur installation error. I was rapidly turned-off by the over-the-range micro-hoods which were everywhere in the last 20-30 years. When I bought Asheville house it had one of those (the standard white GE one you see a lot of places I think). I had to fix the range light but that was just a corroded socket.

Then fortunately something else broke and I said Yay i can get rid of it. Replaced it with a stainless-steel range hood on sale from Home Depot. Put the old broken one on curb and city picks it up for $5. I was becoming anti-microwave anyway so mostly do stovetop/slow-cooker/instant-pot and even that intimidating oven thing.

@Cerridwyn @chienfou @macromeh @pmarin I’m kinda hoping for the same. It’s not our house but we’re renting from a friend, so i figure if the micro goes, we’ll drop a cheap hood in its place and get a small countertop micro. I’d bet they’ll just gut the kitchen when they move back in anyway.

And don’t get me started on the “stain” job on the cabinets…

@Cerridwyn @chienfou @macromeh @ybmuG I feel your pain.

@Cerridwyn @chienfou @macromeh @pmarin @ybmuG Microhoods save a LOT of counter space vs. standard microwave ovens, which is probably why they’re popular. You can put a much larger microwave oven over the average range than you can on the average countertop, too!

@llangley I would do this in my truck when I drive across the country. I just have to remember where/when it was last set. In at least one time zone it will be correct, usually.

@Kyeh At least my car makes it slightly easier with DST/STD selection in the settings.

@macromeh my car is old.

@Kyeh @macromeh

My car is old too… All you do is push an up or down button. Which ever kid is in the front can do it to. And does. Fortunately I wear a wrist watch.

@yakkoTDI Depends how much you care.
I’ve done that - just subtract for the entire five months.

@Kyeh @yakkoTDI my dad’s car is always about 10 min fast and perpetually in standard time. He doesn’t change the time for DST, so for 6 months you have to do math…

@yakkoTDI @ybmuG Good for the brain!

@Kyeh @yakkoTDI true, but I prefer to reserve my mental energy for navigating through the knuckleheads on the road

@Cerridwyn Not bad, except for the leaves INSIDE the window.

@Cerridwyn @PooltoyWolf No, that’s like my mother’s place because she loves to pick up colorful leaves in the fall and set them around.

@Cerridwyn @Kyeh Honestly surprised my mom doesn’t do the same.

@ironcheftoni
Do you dive? I haven’t been in about 10 yrs but loved it while I was doing it!

@chienfou I used to and haven’t in about 20 years or so. The watch, mask, fins and snorkel are the only gear that I have kept since I still occasionally snorkel when given the chance. Masks with one-way valves for easy clearing were hard to find at the time

@ironcheftoni
True enough. Though I’ve never had any trouble clearing a mask by pulling the bottom out. I have a full face mask still in the box from about 2 years ago at the end of the season at Walmart. I keep meaning to break it out in the pool to see if I like it. Still haven’t managed to do that. I’ll be taking all my snorkel gear to the Caribbean for 3 weeks for Christmas /New Year’s/ early January and I’m looking forward to using it all.